"Asian" flu bug going around. First it was Andrew, then Jianny, now me. Hasn't hit anyone else in the flat yet. Maybe it's because the rest aren't asian. Fudz (Zimbabwen, or affectionately called "Zim"), Doug (Icelandic Aussie) and Kate (American), who's currently in Thailand learning massage from the monks.

The air spaces in the front of my head hurt (sinusitis).

My nose is blocked from all the running its doing (mucus production).

I'm having a slight fever (pyrexia).

And I think it should be a virus.

It's cool how much I've learnt in one semester!

15 minute break up! Time to hit the books about toxic (and quite possibly ecstatic) plants.

I'm supposed to be studying!

Who says I don't act my age? = P

You Are 26 Years Old

26 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

The pig practical exam went slightly better? Partially because we weren't asked to do much.

Temperature taking should be filmed and sent to funniest home videos. Trying to stick something up the butt of a moving object is not easy and really comical if I didn't have to do it. Looking at my watch to time the temperature resulted in the pig moving away from the thermometer so I resorted to self-timing in my head following the pig the whole time. I should get a nurse's watch. I got a bonus faeces sample as well for my effort. How nice.

Intramuscular injection was a lark. I guess the pigs had wised up to what was going on by the second day of exams and run far and fast when they see a needle coming. I administered half and the pig squealed bloody murder and ran. I hope Ross didn't see that. I administered the rest with not much problem.

Blood taking was nice. Maybe it was because I chose a large skinny pig. It was the first time sticking a needle into a piglet's chest to get blood that I succeeded without much problem. It sounds painful but most of the time the animals don't even seem to know theres a needle in them! They make more noise before (because they are outraged that they are caught) and after (because they are happy to be free) the deed.

And that was it for pigs!

I still don't feel I got educated enough on both species. I wish there were more practs. I want to master these things, not just know them casually.

Overall I think it went ok, despite how inadequate I felt. God makes the inadequate adequate! = )

Learnings from the clinical examinations exam. Which is quite frustrating as we only had 3 hours to practice on each species this entire semester. Not including an extra 1 1/2 hours we requested for.

Rule of thumb 1. Get enough sleep. Everything seems to move much slower after only 4 hours of sleep.

Rule of thumb 2. Get there on time. I think I was. On time that is. I think I need to re-synchronise all my time-telling devices in the house. My handphones, the clock and the microwave.

Pick a nice slightly 2-minded cow like mine. O wait! You can't pick her! Not like match.com for cows. Heh. At first I thought she was a darling, she let me see how old she was through the mouth.

Open your ears, sometimes the examiner will refer to YOUR cow for conditon score. How much meat can my cow give...hmm...

I was asked to see if my underaged cow was producing milk. Duh.

Breed is important too! All blacks are Angus or Angus crosses.

My dear darling Angus decided to not let me put a mouth gag in and oesophageal tube. Bring in the nose grips!

The tube is so fun. It goes down into the rumen and you BLOW down it to hear bubbles. Brings be back to my drink bubble blowing days.

My dear darling cow decided to be nice again and lift her leg while I pulled it up. A lot of things that normally go wrong for me went right and a lot of things that normally go right went wrong. I normally don't have enough strength to pull up the leg but I did. Cow co-operated as well. Examiner was standing right there when I was tying the knot (wrongly) and he immediately showed me the correct knot on the spot. I could have got the quick-release clove hitch right if I had the chance to test it. A lot of things seem confusing after too little sleep and not enough teaching. I should have asked frequently unavailable teacher to check my knots. I thought I was correct.

I was asked to do a "virtual" v-sling technique. It went ok I guess.

Dear darling cow decided to do a full "let's release it all!" (about 5 litres...) pee on me while I was taking her temperature from the behind. Teacher thought I was from Singapore based on the thermomether I bought from Perth 0_o

I got the heart rate because I was listening to the wrong area. Again not enough teaching, too high a student:teacher ratio, me asking other confused students instead of the teacher straight. At least now I know where the heart is. Under the elbow pushed forward!

And that was it! Elin in the next crush seemed to have more questions than me. Phew.

Warp speed internet! Coolness! Thanks Andrew for ringing up the IT helpdesk!

Now I can tag the YM blog all I want.....muahahaha...

Remember the stalker/prankster? A few weeks ago there was this written on our flat whiteboard "somebody called you in the morning but you weren't awake sleeping beauty". I never found out who was the person who called. Neh.

Had this weird dream. May have been related to all the mucking out I did at the pacing stables. I dreamt that I was in a farm with 1000 horses in stables, 1000 cows and 1000 sheep. In the stables the poor horses were elbow (horse elbow) deep in manure. Now I know horses poop a lot, but this was ridiculous. Weird.

I think God has really been wanting to show me how much He loves me. He's just pouring down his favour on me. A lot of what I've been praying for has come true! Half of which relate for other people and the other half requests for myself. Bernice came to the Lord. Yay! June doesn't have to stay another extra semester at extra expense. Yay! I asked God to hold the rain while I did laundry for a couple of hours and He did! Not even a drizzle happened! Even when I don't really ask God for anything in particular, I just feel so blessed by Him. I get into church and theres not a drop of rain anywhere, once I sit down it POURS. Wow. What can I say, God is great! All glory to Him!